The couple, together for 10 years, got into trouble when mothers expressed outrage that children had to witness their mating.
A local official, Lydia Dudziak, took up their cause and persuaded the director of the zoo in Poznan to have the animals put in separate pens. The zoo admitted making a mistake and said the donkeys, identified as Napoleon and Antosia were back again in one pen.
The interruption of the long-standing romance turned into a national news story in Poland in the past days. Nearly 7,000 people signed a petition to have them reunited.
Experts said forcing the donkeys to live alone could affect their psychological well being, and politicians were asked about it on the country’s leading news programs.
In their decade together, Napoleon and Antosia have produced six offspring.