Tusk IV and V live on the Stokes Family Farm near Dardanelle, Arkansas. The work of caring for the Razorbacks is shared between Keith and his wife Julie, their daughter Abbey, their son Chip and his wife Lori, and their four year old son (Keith and Julie’s grandson), Colt.

In 1994, the U of A athletics department and former Razorback football player David Bazzel contacted Keith Stokes, President of the Arkansas State Pork Producers Association. They asked Keith to find a live boar to represent the team. Keith traveled to nearby Greenbrier and brought back Tusk I, a Russian boar weighing 475 pounds. Tusk I was smaller than a typical commercial hog and closer in form to the original wild boars of Hugo Bezdek’s time. Those wild boars were smaller than domestic pigs, with fierce tusks, a shovel plate on their skull for digging in the dirt, and long snouts.