Who cares?
It's just a twist in the author’s plot - just enjoy the story and don’t try to over think and analyse each and every detail. Learn to enjoy the story for its RASA - its poetic, aesthetic, and dramatic flavours and themes.
When you watch movies do you really examine analyse and dissect every feature?
When reading the Ramayana you should not be asking if this is true or not, you should be asking what lesson can I learn from this incident.
The golden deer represents the allure and attraction of material delights and pleasures. The deer in Indian symbology represents the fickle and ever-changing mind.
Sītā was enamoured of the golden deer and was craving to possess it - this craving resulted in grief and suffering. So the lesson we learn from this is die not pursue and become attached to the flighting delights and pleasures of the material world. All desire, craving and attachments ends in suffering.
So in this story at the beginning of all Hindu Indian is encapsulated.
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