The natural science professor Habakkuk Tibatong has developed a method to teach animals to speak. Because of the envy and attacks of his fellow professors, he has to leave home and deal with Tim inkblot, a little orphan boy and the talking domestic pig Wutz on the small island Titiwu settle.

Wutz takes over the task of his housekeeper, the other animals on the island have to regularly take part in language classes Prof. Tibatong compete. One day an iceberg is washed up with a large egg, from which after a few weeks of hatching urmel (to Prof. Tibatongs Theory hatches the link between dinosaurs and mammals), which then by Wutz is raised and also learns to speak. In the course of his childhood, this must urmel different adventures exist, in particular is Altkönig Pumponell from Pumpolonia chasing him as a big game hunter. Ultimately, it gets lost urmel in a cave and after an elaborate search by Tibatong and found the animals again.