The observation you made that the object under consideration has stripes is certainly not "useless" in this case, just because you haven't ascertained whether antelopes or elephants in the jungle also have stripes.
we now know that various types of symbol sequences, from natural sequences such as DNA and proteins to man-made systems such as music and Fortran, occupy quite different entropic ranges compared to linguistic systems (Figure 1(b); Figure 8 in Schmitt and Herzel [1997]).