$animate.leave causes IE error if raw DOM element passed

[adamreisnz]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
Calling $animate.leave() with a raw DOM element as parameter will cause an Object doesn't support property or method remove error in IE 10/11.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://plnkr.co or similar (template: http://plnkr.co/edit/tpl:yBpEi4).

let ele = $document[0].getElementById('some-id')
$animate.leave(ele);

What is the expected behavior?
It works in other browsers, because they support the DOM element .remove() method. However, as this is not supported in IE, I would think that Angular should check if the object passed into the function is in fact a jQlite wrapped object or a raw DOM element, and give a warning if it's not a jQlite wrapped object or possibly wrap it by itself.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Warn developers of potential problems in IE.

Which versions of Angular, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of Angular? Please also test with the latest stable and snapshot (https://code.angularjs.org/snapshot/) versions.
Angular 1.5.8
IE 10, 11

Other information (e.g. stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix)
The following line is what's causing it:

angular.js/src/ng/animate.js

Line 509 in 0ff10e1

element.remove();

[gkalpak]

According to the docs, the elements passed to the $aminate functions are regular DOM Nodes, but we clearly assume they are jqLite/jQuery elements.

Ideally we should only support jqLite/jQuery elements, but "fixing" that would be a breaking change (since it's been documented otherwise for a long time). I think we should support both (which should be fairly straight-forward anyway).