Well poet B S Mardhekar didn't know this. Or chose to ignore it. And hence he compared the god to an ostrich in following lines:
"राव, सांगतां देव कुणाला,
शहाजोग जो शहामृगासम;
..."
[बा. सी. मर्ढेकर, # 43, "मर्ढेकरांची कविता" B S Mardhekar, "Mardhekar's Poetry", 1959]
If god doesn't behave like ostrich, maybe her worshippers...
Artist: Robert Leighton, The New Yorker,April 27 2009, Cartoon Caption Contest #190
My caption:
"They are changing the carrier of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of prosperity and wealth. Remember it always symbolizes her worshippers."