The youngest. Their baby in a way. After all they did bring him up. Private was the one they all, without question, the years, Skipper had had doubts about how Private would survive on his own when he, and the other two penguins, weren't around. He'd been pleasantly surprised on many occasions, the more noticeable one, being when Private had gotten stuck in the vending machine with Mort. (How he'd survived being stuck with a lemur for so long was, and would always be a mystery to the leader penguin).
That was beside the point. He'd managed to escape without any help from anyone from a vending machine. All while stuck with a lemur. He now longer worried for Private's survival techniques. It didn't mean he didn't worry for other things. Like how people would treat him. They would probably take advantage of his kind, naive nature. But, somehow Skipper knew he'd be OK. He was more than capable of sorting his problems out. He didn't plan on biting the dust anytime soon, but he knew he could rest in peace.
